Word: selfishnesses
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...dangerous times, recalled the effectiveness of the Marshall Plan and warned them that the hungry fall easy prey to Communism. "We need friends in this world today as we never needed them before," he said. "I am for ... this bill because I think it will help us from a selfish standpoint; if for no other reason, I would be ... for passage...
...fastest auto-racer, Ava feels drawn to the mysterious stranger. At length, while an ominous soundtrack narrator keeps describing what is all too visible on the screen, and the camera catches some revealing glimpses of Ava swimming out to his anchored ship, the picture's catchall plots bring selfish Ava to the point where she will gladly give her life for love of him. But Mason loves her too much to let her do it. Another flick of Omar's finger solves this high-flown problem. Only then, having writ for 123 long minutes, does the moving finger...
Some say your magazine is [editorially] slanted. I won't argue that, but your April 30 cover story on MacArthur is the epitome in reporting and intelligent analysis. Your presentation of the selfish political angles as well as the sound and honest elements of the whole affair is like a pine tree in a cotton patch . . . You have become the weight of balance on the scale of sensible opinion...
...only improvements in Iran have come about because of five American forays into the Iranian economy--the first in 1911 and the last in 1946. Men on four of these missions served as top administrators in Iranian public finance; for their success they were pressured out of office by selfish politicians and Russian intrigues...
...what is the U.S.A. getting out of it? ... He would look for the catch rather than for the faith. I will tell you what the U.S.A. is putting into it . . . Marshall Aid to the end of 1950 has cost every crude, rude, grasping, vulgar, selfish, racketeering American fifteen shillings ($2.10) a week out of his back pocket...